They don't need to just yet. Bryz excels behind a good defense. Unfortunately for him the Flyers defense stinks. They will be fine cap wise with Timonen's 6.3 million off the books after this year. If he really blows they only buy him out if there's something better via free agency.

DelPen wrote:They don't need to just yet. Bryz excels behind a good defense. Unfortunately for him the Flyers defense stinks. They will be fine cap wise with Timonen's 6.3 million off the books after this year. If he really blows they only buy him out if there's something better via free agency.

Pretty much this. If he plays well, that cap hit is Martinesque...it becomes tolerable. And yeah, you bring up Timonen, Bryz is certainly not the worst cap hit on that team.

DelPen wrote:They don't need to just yet. Bryz excels behind a good defense. Unfortunately for him the Flyers defense stinks. They will be fine cap wise with Timonen's 6.3 million off the books after this year. If he really blows they only buy him out if there's something better via free agency.

Pretty much this. If he plays well, that cap hit is Martinesque...it becomes tolerable. And yeah, you bring up Timonen, Bryz is certainly not the worst cap hit on that team.

Timonen more than carries his weight.

Bryz is the highest cap hit next year, and if he does excel behind a good defense they'll likely spend more than Timonen's hit to get the best available defender, if not in dollars in terms of cap weight. This, and they their most productive offensive player signed after 2014 is Scott Hartnell... not a good situation up front. There's potential for this to be a choice between how many of the young guys and keeping the goaltender/defense intact.

From Toronto they seem to want a Kadri+Bozak or Kadri+Gardiner. ...I don't care for Kadri, he's a non-factor for me...the thing I don't get is how the value of Gardiner is at all similar to the value of Bozak...

I think if it was Kadri+Bozak for Luongo the deal will be done at the same second the CBA is ratified...because that's a great deal for Toronto. But I say that never being impressed by either Kadri or Bozak...